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MEXICANS' TRUCKS DEBATE * USA
* The other point of view - Mexican truckers await permits to drive farther into U.S.
El Paso,TX,USA -The El Paso Times, by Louie Gilot -11 Jan 2008: -- Repeated assaults on a pilot program to let Mexican trucks roam U.S. roadways are not deterring one local company... Grupo Cementos de Mexico, based in Chihuahua City with cement plants in Juárez, was supposed to send its first truck across in December, the month the U.S. Congress passed an omnibus bill containing a provision to block the program... But politics is not what kept the GCC truck home... "The process is very hard," said company spokesman Humberto Urranga. "There are a lot of checks. We had the insurance and the special stickers and the Texas license plates, but we were still waiting for (Department of Transportation) stickers to drive in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado"... The pilot project is proceeding, regardless of its controversy in the United States, Urranga said... Although many of the Mexican companies enrolled in the program have registered several trucks each, many said they are only testing the water with one or two trucks, and even one or two trips... (Photo by Rudy Gutierrez / El Paso Times: A GCC driver ran to a company cement hauler rig at the company's El Paso plant at 2825 W. Paisano at Executive Center on Thursday. The company ships dry cement from Salamayuca, Mexico, to the plant)
* Eroding safety on our roads one truck at a time
Washington,DC,USA -Public Citizen/Auto Safety & Consumer Protection -10 Jan 2008: -- The Bush administration announced yet another Mexico-based trucking company that is allowed free reign to operate throughout the entire U.S. in the controversial NAFTA trucks pilot program — with 34 more companies waiting in the wings... The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced that Distribuidora Hermanos Hayashi is authorized to send one truck into the U.S. beyond the commercial border zone. This brings the total NAFTA trucking companies operating beyond the restricted commercial border zone to 13 with 58 trucks... Even more trucks are in line to receive full access to U.S. roads. FMCSA has notified 34 more carriers that they have passed a Pre-Authorization Safety Audit, which is a prerequisite of participation in the pilot program...
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